* 1766 – William Hyde Wollaston, English chemist ( d. 1828 )

William Hodgson Cole, rector of West Clandon and Vicar of Wonersh, near Guildford, Surrey, on 8 April 1828.

* 1828 – William Randal Cremer, English politician and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize ( d. 1908 )

In 1821 William followed in the footsteps of his older brothers and attended Eton College before matriculating in 1828 at Christ Church, Oxford, where he read Classics and Mathematics, although he had no great interest in mathematics.

* July 22 – William Randal Cremer, English politician and pacifist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1828 )

* November 18 – William Allingham, Irish author ( b. 1824 or 1828 )

* May 20 – William Congreve, British rocket pioneer ( d. 1828 )

* August 6 – William Hyde Wollaston, English chemist ( d. 1828 )

* May 20 – William Thornton, American architect ( d. 1828 )

* June 8 – William Few, American politician ( d. 1828 )

Thus, with the support of convention chairman Elihu Root, Taft's supporters outvoted Roosevelt's men, and the convention renominated incumbents William Howard Taft and James S. Sherman, making Sherman the first sitting vice-president to be nominated for re-election since John C. Calhoun in 1828.

** William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst, Governor-General of India from August 1823 to February 1828

The term was derived from the phrase " to the victor belong the spoils of the enemy " by New York Senator William L. Marcy, referring to the victory of the Jackson Democrats in the election of 1828.

In 1828 Josiah Mason improved a cheap, efficient slip-in nib in Birmingham, England, which could be added to a fountain pen and in 1830, with the invention of a new machine, William Joseph Gillott, William Mitchell and James Stephen Perry devised a way to mass manufacture robust, cheap steel pen nibs.

In England, these phosphorus matches were called " Congreves " after Sir William Congreve ( 1772 – 1828 ) while they went by the name of " loco foco " in the United States.

In 1828, William Clarke in London published the second edition of The Boy's Own Book, which included the rules of rounders and which contained the first printed description in English of a bat and ball base-running game played on a diamond.

A portrait of William Wilberforce ( 1828 ) was unfinished

* William J. Lewis, ( 1766 – 1828 ), born in Augusta County, United States Congressman from Virginia.

* William Cocke ( 1747 – 1828 ), born in Amelia County, first United States Senator from Tennessee

* 1828 William Corder was arrested on Wednesday April 23 at Everley Grove House, Ealing Lane in Brentford, for the notorious Red Barn Murder.

He was married to Susan, daughter of William Duffus ( on 4 February 1815 ; she died 23 January 1828 ) by whom he had nine children.

* William Alexander Smith ( politician ) ( 1828 – 1888 ), member of the U. S. House of Representatives from North Carolina ( 1873 – 1874 )

In 1828 William H. Ashley ascended the Cache la Poudre River on his way to the Green River in present-day Utah.

Albert ( full name: Frederick Augustus Albert Anton Ferdinand Joseph Karl Maria Baptist Nepomuk Wilhelm Xaver Georg Fidelis ) ( Dresden, 23 April 1828 – Schloss Sibyllenort ( Szczodre ), 19 June 1902 ) was a King of Saxony and a member of the House of Wettin.

* June 19 – Albert, King of Saxony and a member of the House of Wettin ( b. 1828 )

* June 23, 1828 – Portugal: King Miguel I overthrows his niece Queen Maria II, beginning the Liberal Wars.

In the 1820s, the British government was formally headed by King George IV, but in practice, was led by his Prime Ministers Lord Liverpool ( 1812 – 1827 ), George Canning ( 1827 ), Lord Goderich ( 1827 – 1828 ), and Duke of Wellington ( 1828 – 1830 ).

King Andrianampoinimerina ( 1785 – 1810 ) and his son, Radama I ( 1810 – 1828 ) succeeded in uniting nearly all of Madagascar under Merina rule.

After losing his parliamentary majority in a general election in November 1827, Charles dismissed Prime Minister Villèle on 5 January 1828 and appointed Jean-Baptise de Martignac, a man the King disliked and thought of only as provisional.

* Daniel Gage ( 1828 – 1901 ), the " Ice King of Lowell "; family for whom Gage Hill is named

# 1828 Shaka King of the Zulus by his half-brother and successor Dingane and accomplices

Wellington was by now distancing himself from the ultra-Tory wing of his party, and by January 1828 the King had concluded that the coalition could not continue and that a Tory ministry under Wellington would be preferable.

Dom Miguel I ( English: Michael I ; 26 October 1802, Lisbon – 14 November 1866, Schloss Karlshöhe, Bavaria ), " the Absolutist " () or " the Traditionalist " (), was the King of Portugal between 1828 and 1834, the seventh child and third son of King João VI ( John VI ) and his queen, Carlota Joaquina of Spain.

Instead, Fort King was closed in 1828.

Pom Wichian Chodok ( ป ้ อมว ิ เช ี ยรโชฎก ): It was constructed in 1828 during the reign of King Rama III because in that period, there was a conflict with the Vietnamese on Chao Anuwong of Vientiane.

* Charlotte, Princess Royal of Great Britain and Ireland ( 29 September 1765 – 5 October 1828 ), second wife and widow of King Frederick I of Württemberg and stepmother of King William I of Württemberg.

* William S. King ( 1828 – 1900 ), U. S. Congressman from Minnesota

Colonel William Smith King ( December 16, 1828 – February 24, 1900 ) was a Republican United States Representative for Minnesota from March 4, 1875 to March 3, 1877.

# Frederick Augustus Albert Anton Ferdinand Joseph Karl Maria Baptist Nepomuk Wilhelm Xaver Georg Fidelis ( b. Dresden, 23 April 1828 – d. Schloss Sibyllenort, 19 June 1902 ), King Albert of Saxony.

( 1767 – 1828 ), Flag Captain under Admiral Jervis, Flag Captain of King George III's Royal Yacht ( 1801-4 ) and Commissioner of Sheerness Dockyard ( 1804-6 ) & Portsmouth Dockyard ( 1806 – 28 ), married Mary Whitbread, daughter of Samuel Whitbread ( 1720-1796 ), whose sons: Sir George Grey, 2nd Baronet ( 1799 – 1882 ) was a British Statesman and Home Secretary, and Charles Samuel Grey, Paymaster of Civil Service in Ireland ; and daughters: Mary married Capt Thomas Monck Mason, Elizabeth married Charles Noel, 1st Earl of Gainsborough, Harriet married Revd John Jenkinson, Hannah Jean married Sir Henry Thompson, 3rd Baronet, Jane married Francis Baring,

Princess Victoria, staying in Holywell with her uncle King Leopold of Belgium, visited the Well in 1828.

The first, and perhaps the best, is Valdemar Seir ( Valdemar the Victorious, 1826 ), which was followed by Erik Menveds Bamdom ( Erik Menved's Childhood, 1828 ); Kong Erik og de Fredløse ( King Erik and the Outlaws, 1833 ); and Prins Otto af Danmark og Hans Samtid ( Prince Otto of Denmark and his Time, 1835 ).

( 1828 ) The Fort King Military Road ( now State Road 41 ) is built to connect Fort King in Ocala with Fort Brooke in what was then the settlement of Tampa.